Placket-fastening.



PATENTED DEC. 20, 1904.

H. D. STIMSON.v PLAGKET FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15, 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY D. STIMSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PLACKET-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,816, dated December 20, 1904. Application filed February I5, 1904. Serial No. 1.93.715.

To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY D. STIMsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Placket-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to means for fastening the plackets of dresses; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a portion of a dress provided with a placketfastening according to this invention and showing the placket partly open. Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the fastening-hooks.

A is a portion of a dress, and B is the usual placket-opening.

0 represents the fastening-hooks, which are secured at one side of the opening, and D represents the hook-bars secured at the other side of the opening. The hooks and bars are arranged in a series one above the other.

G and (Z are a common hook and eye for securing the band at the top of the placketopening. a

Each hook C is formed of a piece of wire bent double. The middle portions of the piece of wire are bent to form a bill e, which is preferably semicircular in outline, and its end portions 7 are bent outwardly in opposite directions, so as to form fastening-loops. The bill projects upwardly and at a right angle to the fastening-loops. The center point of the substantially semicircular bill is arranged above the bottom of the fastening-loops f, as shown in Fig. 2, and the point of the hook extends below the level, but not underneath the said center points, so that the entrance to the hook is not contracted and so that its point indents and touches the fabric when the loops are secured to it by stitches in the usual manner. These fasteninghooks are secured to the fabric in a series one above the other with their bills pointing downward. The fastening-bars D have loops h at their ends, which are secured to the fabric by stitches, and the said bars are arranged horizontally and one above the other. WVhen the fastening-hooks C are made in this manner, their backs are not next to the fabric, as is the case with ordinary hooks, as shown at G, and the hooks C cannot be' disengaged from the fasteningbars without turning them more than one-half over backward. The placket is fastened from the lower end upward, and when the second hook is fastened the first or bottom hook cannot come unfastened no matter in what direction the fabric is pulled.

What I claim is The combination, with a garment provided with a placket-opening, of a series of hooks secured to the garment, each said hook comprising two fastening-loops and a substantially semicircular bill bent upward from the said loops and having its point bent downward and arranged below the said loops and in advance of its center point of curvature so that it indents the material of the garment, and a series of fastening devices for the said hooks to engage with also secured to the said garment.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY D. STIMSON. Witnesses:

JOHN STOCKBU'RGER, C. P. LINEAWEAON. 

